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U.S. Hits 11 Million Coronavirus Cases, Adding 1 Million In A Week:
U.S. Hits 11 Million Coronavirus Cases, Adding 1 Million In A Week
More than 11 million confirmed coronavirus cases have been recorded in the United States, according to a COVID-19 tracker by Johns Hopkins University. The country reported 166,555 new cases on Sunday, with 1,266 new deaths.
The staggering milestone was reached only six days after the U.S. hit 10 million cases. Positive test rates and hospitalization rates are on the rise across the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[...] Hospitalizations continue to climb. More than 69,000 people were hospitalized as of Sunday, more than ever before.
The pandemic also continues to disproportionately affect Black and brown communities in the U.S. According to data from the CDC as of Nov. 7, hospitalization rates for Hispanic or Latino people are 4.2 times higher than that of white people. American Indian or Alaska Native people have been hospitalized at 4.1 times the rate of white people, with Black people being hospitalized at 3.9 times the rate of white people.
[...] The Trump administration has blocked the current coronavirus task force from communicating with President-elect Biden's team.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 16 2020, @11:38PM (9 children)
I have yet to see any real science describing why blacks are so much worse. It's not like they are genetically more prone to it. If they got to the bottom of the matter, they would probably have to say poor people are more prone, or certain social behaviors are more prone, or something that would inadvertently sound racist just because a lot of blacks happen to fall in to that group.
And yes, the USA got a race sensitive chip on its shoulder about the size of Texas. Here you have to make all kinds of concessions to blacks, put unqualified blacks in high paid jobs, (Steve Harvey is very unfunny, but if you don't laugh, you might be racist). if a black person shoots your entire family and then you shoot them before they put another bullet in you, then you are racist.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @12:05AM (1 child)
Fucking racist! Why do black people have to put bullets in you in the first place, except you running them down in your racist pick-em up truck. like those "former law enforcement" good ol' boys down in Georgia? Fucking asshole racist!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @04:24AM
I'm not white, but yellow if we need to label folks with colors. Lived in Michigan for 5+ years and 1+ years in Minnesota - guess which ethnic group I copped the most racist slurs from? Here's a hint, the very tanned ones.
(Score: 3, Troll) by RS3 on Tuesday November 17 2020, @12:09AM (4 children)
Actually black / African descent people have somewhat different body chemistries. I had a couple of blood tests a year+ ago and they list your result, and then list the "normal" ranges, and a couple of them were one way for caucasians and something different for blacks, like white cell count, which is somewhat lower normal for blacks.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1895180/ [nih.gov]
Often proper medical diagnosis and treatment involves precision, so the differences and consideration thereof can make a huge difference in patient outcomes.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Tuesday November 17 2020, @11:06AM (3 children)
Everything is a tradeoff. It's far more important that we fight systemic racism and generational injustice than provide the best medical treatment to certain subgroups per our best understanding of medicine at the moment. You have to make sacrifices for the greater good.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @03:24PM (1 child)
LoL. Dude, Poe's Law - seriously. :D
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @03:47PM
Thank you! But remember, and I need to keep it in mind, that this is SN- people get their power and jollies writing snarky stuff, even when they're dead wrong. It's not a matter of what OP actually meant, but it's much more about showing how clever you can be at reading into something someone says, interpreting no matter how wrong, and putting words in their e-mouth. I've had people actually put quotes around something that was not even close to something I wrote. Some people's brains are that scrambled. Maybe they had coronavirus neuropathy.
I keep forgetting where I am, and trying to be helpful. I need to remember this is NOT a place of constructive interaction / think-tank, but much more of a flamewar environment, because the assholes here got kicked off of slashdot and other places. Tis a shame so many good people and otherwise good conversation has to be ruined by assholes. If it was my board, I'd take the good people more seriously. And maybe someday I'll have the time to start one.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @03:37PM
So it's better to apply the same broad-brush medicine to everyone, so that we don't appear "racist"? Even if some people literally die in the process? I think I would call that racist. You give a medicine that will kill, or not enough medicine to help the person, because you're trying to say that ALL people need to get the exact same medical treatment no matter the underlying biology? I think I'd like to consult with some non-white people and get their opinion. Or would that be "racist"? I'll actually ask some Black people I know.
In other words, the term "racist" no is no longer limited to discriminating against someone?
I'm not a doctor, nor even work in the medical world. Your gripe is with the medical community, so please focus your time and effort not here, but with the United States of America's National Institute of Health. https://www.nih.gov [nih.gov]
Oh, and please start fighting "Affirmative Action" and any other discriminatory practices. And contact all the far left people who want "Reparations".
(Score: 4, Interesting) by HiThere on Tuesday November 17 2020, @01:28AM
Well, it's associated with higher exposure to pollution, and it's associated with having a job where you can't isolate yourself from infectious people. Those are both reasons why minority groups tend to be more exposed and have worse reactions. Bad cases are also associated with blood type A and with low levels of vitamin D. (That last may not be as simple as it sounds...but it may be that people who don't take vitamins are more likely to get a bad case...and that would correlate with low income.
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(Score: 1, Troll) by Dr Spin on Tuesday November 17 2020, @06:14AM
I have yet to see any real science describing why blacks are so much worse
That is because you are supposed to wear the mask over your nose and mouth, not your eyes.
At the very least:
Lack of Vit D (proven to be an issue by Scientific research in at least 4 countries).
More likely to be in "public facing" jobs.
More likely to live in high pollution areas.
Notice that Covid levels in a lot of Equatorial Africa are a tiny fraction of what they are in Northern Europe.
America is much worse because of the infection by Trumpism.
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